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Tom Brady on K&C: ‘I certainly disagree with what [Donald Trump] said’ — On Friday night, President Donald Trump had some pointed comments towards the NFL when it comes to players protesting during the national anthem. — “Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners …
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A local WWII vet took a knee to support black NFL players. He's going viral. — AP reporters counted more than 200 NFL players who did not stand during the national anthem before their games on Sunday. Six refused to stand the week before, mainly protesting police brutality. AP — CONNECT
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The NFL Won't Forget September 24, 2017 Anytime Soon — What started last year with one player and one knee became something much larger today. — September 24, 2017 has been a day of immense consequence for the National Football League. Across the nation, an unprecedented number of players …
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Donald Trump versus the NFL, explained
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Steeler Who Stood for Anthem Now Has Best-Selling NFL Jersey
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The Politicization of Everything
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Upstate restaurant owner to stop showing NFL games in response to kneeling players
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Gohmert Calls for McCain's Recall — Texas Republican suggests way to support senator and get health care repeal — Pelosi Calls Out Trump for War on NFL, NBA Former Governor, Senate Candidate Announces Bid for Reichert's Seat State Medicaid Directors Say Graham-Cassidy ‘Fails to Deliver’
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McCain calls brain cancer prognosis ‘very poor’ — https://apnews.com/d2acf2f24e474f828673 6259eb12b884 — Link copied! — WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. John McCain says doctors have given him a “very poor prognosis” as he battles brain cancer. — McCain underwent surgery in July …
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The Latest: Trump blasts McCain over health bill vote — https://apnews.com/bf3631c051cf4a06a8bf a901ea24cee6 — Link copied! — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Republican effort to overhaul the Obama health law (all times local): — President Donald Trump says Arizona GOP …


In radio interview, Trump slams McCain, dings McConnell and botches a Senate candidate's name
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John McCain fights back
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New version of health-care bill will help Alaska and Maine — home of two holdout senators
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Poll: Most disapprove of Graham-Cassidy health care bill — Most Americans — 52 percent — disapprove of the Graham-Cassidy health care bill, according to a CBS News Poll conducted between Sept. 21 and 24. — Only 20 percent of those polled said they approved of the Republican legislation aimed …
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Americans back DACA by a huge margin (POLL)
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GOP senators unveil new ‘Dreamers’ bill
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Steve Bannon Sought To Infiltrate Facebook Hiring — According to emails obtained by BuzzFeed News, Bannon hoped to spy on Facebook's job application process. — Steve Bannon plotted to plant a mole inside Facebook, according to emails sent days before the Breitbart boss took …
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Puerto Rico's Agriculture and Farmers Decimated by Maria — YABUCOA, P.R. — José A. Rivera, a farmer on the southeast coast of Puerto Rico, stood in the middle of his flattened plantain farm on Sunday and tried to tally how much Hurricane Maria had cost him. — “How do you calculate everything?”
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Hot, isolated, and running out of supplies, parts of Puerto Rico near desperation — JUNCOS, Puerto Rico — In the heat and humidity here in the central mountains, Meryanne Aldea fanned her bedridden mother with a piece of cardboard Sunday as the ailing woman lay on her side, relieving a large ulcer in her back.
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Anthony Weiner gets hard time — Weiner leaves court after being sentenced to 21 months in prison. … It's hard time for Anthony Weiner. — The disgraced ex-congressman broke down crying as he was sentenced to 21 months in prison Monday for convincing a high school student to undress and touch herself via Skype in 2016.
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Anthony Weiner sentenced to 21 months in prison
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Anthony Weiner's sexting scandal just landed him a 21-month prison sentence
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Trump calls ‘Rick & Bubba,’ calls Roy Moore ‘Ray’ as he stumps for Strange — Gallery: President Trump at Luther Strange for Senate Rally in Huntsville, ALa. — A primary win by “Ray” Moore would open Alabama's U.S. Senate seat to Democrats, President Donald Trump told radio-hosts “Rick and Bubba” this morning.
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Trump claims he doesn't know much about ‘Ray’ Moore
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NBC's Megyn Kelly experiment unveils its latest creation, a morning-show Bride of Frankenstein — “Megyn Kelly Today” is meant to be the final, dazzling piece of Kelly's multimillion-dollar transmogrification from steely Fox News host to a mushy, hugs-for-everybody, midmorning TV host.
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The Trump administration just made its travel ban permanent — President Donald Trump issued an executive order over the weekend that restricts travel to the US from more countries than any of the travel bans that have come before it, effectively banning almost all travel from eight countries …
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North Korea says U.S. has “declared war on our country” — North Korea's foreign minister, Ri Yong-ho, said Monday that President Trump has declared war by tweeting that North Korea “won't be around much longer” if the foreign minister “echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man,” per AP.
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GOP facing likely failure on ObamaCare repeal — Congressional Republicans are facing the prospect of failing this week — perhaps for a final time — in their bid to repeal ObamaCare. — Senate Republicans have yet to throw in the towel, but it seems more than likely their nine-month odyssey …
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‘Sunday Night Football’ Ratings Down Again On Day Of Player Protests — On a day full of criticism from Donald Trump, political protests, linked arms, players taking a knee or not coming on the field at all during the national anthem, and renewed pleas for unity from the league …
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A Divider, Not a Uniter, Trump Widens the Breach — WASHINGTON — Over the course of just 17 hours this weekend, President Trump assailed John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Stephen Curry, the National Football League, Roger Goodell, Iran and Kim Jong-un — the “Little Rocket Man.” And that was on his day off.
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Why Hillary Clinton was right about white women - and their husbands — But new research shows that for white women, having a husband trumped the sisterhood — illary Clinton hoped to wear white on election night, a tribute to the suffragettes and the sweep of political history.